A HOUSEWIFE from Leigh whose little piggy could have won her a fortune has failed to bring home the bacon. Andrea Bury, 30, of St Helens Road, picked the wrong piggy bank to smash in a competition and missed out on £1 million.

But she told the Leigh Journal that she was still delighted after taking home £1,000.

Mum-of-one Andrea won the chance to win £1million after peeling open a winning pack of Dutch bacon.

She was jetted off to Amsterdam with other British winners all hoping to scoop the life-changing sum of money.

The 20 contestants were taken to a room full of 2,000 piggy banks with only one containing a cheque for £1million.

But none of them managed to pick out the right one.

Andrea said: "I don't mind at all not winning the £1million. I still got a cheque for £1,000 and I had a brilliant time."

The contestants were decked out in hard hats and steel toe cap boots and handed a 6oz claw hammer. They then all had to smash one piggy bank each with 19 of the pot pigs containing a £1,000 cheque and one other containing a chance to try for the big money.

The winner, from Wakefield, had 30 seconds to smash as many piggy banks as she could to find the £1 million.

She smashed an amazing 38 piggies -- and got £100 for each one -- but could not find the pig containing the key to riches.

It was a fantastic trip for Andrea who went to Amsterdam for a three-day all-expenses holiday paid for by Royal Crest Dutch Bacon with hubby Jason, leaving their two-year-old son Ryan with his grandma. They stayed in a five-star hotel before the event and went on sight-seeing tours of the area.

She added: "It was a wonderfully relaxing trip and smashing the piggy bank was a great way to get rid of any aggression." Andrea was allowed to take home as many souvenir piggy banks as she could carry and said she now had no excuse not to start saving her pennies for a rainy day.